Lieve De Mecheleer

Coordinator

Lieve De Mecheleer

Coordinator

Lieve De Mecheleer studied medieval history at the University of Gent. She is archivist at the National Archives of Belgium where her main task is to make Ancien Regime archives accessible for research, among others records from the Chamber of Accounts. Her focus lies on criminal, social and religious history. She has taken over the coordination of the project from her former colleague Eddy Put.

Email:godelieve.demecheleer@arch.be

Prof. Xavier Rousseaux

Partner

Prof. Xavier Rousseaux

Partner

Xavier Rousseaux is the ad interim research director of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique at the Centre d'Histoire du Droit et de la Justice (CHDJ) at Universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Brussels and Luxembourg. A specialist in the history of crime and justice in the long term in the West, he leads several research projects and an international network on the history of Belgian justice (1795-2015). He is a founding member of the journal Crime, histoire et sociétés and is a main partner in the PARDONS-project.

Email:xavier.rousseaux@uclouvain.be

Prof. Hans Cools

Partner

Prof. Hans Cools

Partner

Since 2006, Hans lectures at KU Leuven, currently as an associate professor. Moreover, between 2015 and 2017, he served at the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden (NL) as a senior researcher and as a member of its management team. Hans Cools has a strong research interest in the political, social and cultural history of the late medieval and early modern Low Countries, France and Italy. Thereby he focuses on three related themes: political culture, cultural brokerage and the creation of public memory in those communities. Furthermore, Hans serves on the board of the Dutch Association for Italian Studies (WIS) and the Flemish-Dutch Association for Early Modern History (VNVNG). He is also an editor of HISToriant, the yearbook of Antwerp History. He currently is one of the main partner of the PARDONS-project.

Email:hans.cools@kuleuven.be

Prof. Eddy Put

Coordinator

Prof. Eddy Put

Coordinator

Eddy Put, acting director of the Flemish State Archives, head of the Digitisation and Digital Valorisation service and part time professor archival science at the KU Leuven, is coordinator of the project. His main research interests include early modern religious and institutional history, archival arrangement and description as well as the history of early modern record production.

Email:eddy.put@arch.be

Dr. Luke Giraudet

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Luke Giraudet

Postdoctoral Researcher

Luke Giraudet is a postdoctoral researcher based at UCLouvain, having previously lectured in late-medieval history at the University of York, where he obtained his PhD in 2020. A historian focusing on public opinion, political history and urban historiography, particularly during the political contests between the French, English and Burgundian polities during the fifteenth century, Luke is bringing his specialist interests in narrative and discourse to the PARDONS project in the assessment of remission tales and attitudes to crime throughout the early modern period.

Email:luke.giraudet@uclouvain.be

Dr. Gert Gielis

Digitization & Citizen Science

Dr. Gert Gielis

Digitization & Citizen Science

Dr. Gert Gielis is a historian of the early modern era with wide-ranging interests but a particular predilection for the XVIth century Low Countries. His research focused on the histories of religious repression, such as inquisition and censorship, demonstrating the importance of grace and reconciliation in the early modern era. Since childhood, Gert has had a great fondness for stories and storytelling in all their variations. Unsurprisingly, Gert is a book lover who prefers to be near books and archives. As a great supporter of citizen science and an expert in volunteer management Gert is keen to explore the opportunities of doing historical research with a group of history buffs.

Email:gert.gielis@arch.be

Dr. Quentin Verreycken

Scientific Coordinator

Dr. Quentin Verreycken

Scientific Coordinator

Quentin Verreycken is a Fund for Scientific Research-FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLouvain and a Visiting Lecturer at Saint-Louis University, Brussels. A historian of criminal justice, he has worked extensively on the history of pardon and violence regulation in late medieval France, England, and the Low Countries, with a special interest for the crimes committed by soldiers. His current research explores the role of petitions and political communication in wartime. Quentin serves as the scientific coordinator for the PARDONS project, bringing his own experience in investigating pardon letters to the research team.

Email:quentin.verreycken@uclouvain.be

Anica Rimac

Digital Historian & Web Designer

Anica Rimac

Digital Historian & Web Designer

Anica Rimac graduated from KU Leuven in 2023 with a Master's degree in Digital Humanities. She is in charge of the digital services and assets of the Pardons website. Her mission is to ensure ongoing support in the publication and valorization of scientific work and pardon letters (both documents and transcription) on the website.

Email:anica.rimac@uclouvain.be

Gabrielle Bertrand

Phd Student

Gabrielle Bertrand

Phd Student

Gabrielle Bertrand obtained her Master’s degree in Early Modern History at KU Leuven in 2021 with a dissertation dedicated to the notion of Catholic orthodoxy within and beyond Leuven’s sixteenth-century university through the specific works, initiatives and responsibilities of its theology professor Josse Ravesteyn, also known as Judocus Tiletanus.

Email:gabriellesophiea.bertrand@kuleuven.be

Vincent Mazy

Digital Historian & Web Designer

Vincent Mazy

Digital Historian & Web Designer

Vincent Mazy Vincent Mazy graduated from UCLouvain in 2021 with a Master's degree in Contemporary History. He's in charge of the digital services and assets of the Pardons website. His mission is to ensure ongoing support in the publication and valorization of scientific work and pardon letters (both documents and transcription) on the website.

Email:vincent.mazy@uclouvain.be

Hendrik Vandeginste

Consultant

Hendrik Vandeginste

Consultant

Hendrik is a consultant with Histories vzw. Histories vzw puts the many thousands of heritage volunteers in Flanders and Brussels at the center of its operations. We use this inclusive term for everyone who, of their own accord - out of passion - does heritage work in their spare time. Within Pardons, Hendrik focuses on increasing the role of volunteers and the possibility of including this resource in volunteers' own research.

Email:hendrik.vandeginste@historiesvzw.be

Our volunteers

None of this work would have been possible without the help of the volunteers that came through and transcribed letters of grace !
They are fully part of this project and, therefore, of our team.

Anne-Marie Van Basselaere
Annick Decoster
Anton Schuttelaars
Astrid Vos
Claude Verset
Claudia Crivisqui
Els Lenaerts
Georges Wemans
Ghislaine Vanderick
Guido Demuynck
Hendrik Vandeginste
Jef Willemsens
Jip Verheyen
Jozef Neefs
Jurgen Vandebotermet

Libert Loosen
Maxime Renard
Nicolas Denutte
Duffel Paleography Workgroup
Philippe Cornut
Philippe Vanrysselberghe
Renaud Gahide
Rita Malfliet
Robert Mijnendonckx
Roger Vermeulen
Ruben Bal
Toon Van Eemeren
Walter De Smet
Yveline Parfait
Ann Trappers

The Team

Lieve De Mecheleer

Prof. Xavier Rousseaux

Prof. Hans Cools

Prof. Eddy Put

Dr. Luke Giraudet

Dr. Gert Gielis

Dr. Quentin Verreycken

Anica Rimac

Gabrielle Bertrand

Vincent Mazy

Hendrik Vandeginste

Our volunteers

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